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Founded in 1872, Popular Science is the world's largest science and technology magazine. Each month, Popular Science reports on the intersection of science and everyday life, delivering a look at the future now. It's the ultimate guide to what's new and what's next.

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Good reading experience I've always enjoyed Popular Science but wasn't sure if I'd enjoy the Google play version. Especially on a phone. Just like the real thing including ads. I admit I would be disappointed if the ads weren't there. I like popular science and popular mechanics quirky ads.

Horrible Reading Format Expensive to purchase, especially considering that the format the magazine is delivered in makes it almost impossible to read. I constantly have to zoom in and out to read the magazine on a 10 inch tablet, there are pages that in landscape and portrait but cannot be read because the newsstand app will rotate if you try to read the page the correct direction. The experience could be improved if the publisher actually tried using it. I especially appreciated that the magazine is simply scanned, with no thought given to the fact that it is now in a digital medium. Links cannot be clicked, there is no rich media, and it still costs about the same as the paper version. The website for the magazine is a better experience on a digital device and most of the content there is free. Also the amount of ads in the magazine are ridiculous, you could sell the advertising for twice as much if it was clickable - and then cut the amount of ads in half.

The Most Inspiring Science Magazine for Generations !!! Popular Science Magazine has probably inspired more young and old scientists-to-be than all other media and institutions put together, and for more than a century. A great contribution to civilization and mankind.

A Google User

Cheap minded So many reviews complaining of the price of this digital copy being the same as the physical. So many complain the price is too high in general. Yet this magazine is of great quality and always an excellent read. How could $15 for a magazine be too high for a piece that you will enjoy? The creators need some sort of return for their hard work as they already make not much at all. That's a reality of the field. What do these people do for a living to complain about such little cost? I'm sure the same that complain about $3 and $5 apps.

99 cent September Issue - GOOD! Previously I complained about the pricing being to high. With the print edition we could get a year for $12 which included the cost of paper and shipping. Well I just noticed that the September 2013 issue is 99 cents. I purchased it. If you can keep prices like this or cheaper on the digital issues, which are much harder to share and theoretically much cheaper to distribute, I'm all for that. Unfortunately this is for the individual issue. For some reason the yearly subscription is more than 99 cents per issue. I bumped my rating from 1 star to 3 stars. I'll make it higher if you can match the $6 yearly subscription price of the iPad release. Platform price discrimination is really the only thing holding Popular Science back in the digital realm.

A Google User

Digital Edition Too High! Newsstands Physical media continues to decline, and trying to force your digital customers to pay the same price to cover declining physical sales will not work in the "New Economy". You need to adapt or close shop, and you most certainly need to bring down your digital editions price by at least half. Better to take a pay cut now from the top down, then go bankrupt trying to run an outdated business model in this new digital business model.

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A Google User July 11, 2012

Good reading experience I've always enjoyed Popular Science but wasn't sure if I'd enjoy the Google play version. Especially on a phone. Just like the real thing including ads. I admit I would be disappointed if the ads weren't there. I like popular science and popular mechanics quirky ads.

Horrible Reading Format Expensive to purchase, especially considering that the format the magazine is delivered in makes it almost impossible to read. I constantly have to zoom in and out to read the magazine on a 10 inch tablet, there are pages that in landscape and portrait but cannot be read because the newsstand app will rotate if you try to read the page the correct direction. The experience could be improved if the publisher actually tried using it. I especially appreciated that the magazine is simply scanned, with no thought given to the fact that it is now in a digital medium. Links cannot be clicked, there is no rich media, and it still costs about the same as the paper version. The website for the magazine is a better experience on a digital device and most of the content there is free. Also the amount of ads in the magazine are ridiculous, you could sell the advertising for twice as much if it was clickable - and then cut the amount of ads in half.

The Most Inspiring Science Magazine for Generations !!! Popular Science Magazine has probably inspired more young and old scientists-to-be than all other media and institutions put together, and for more than a century. A great contribution to civilization and mankind.

Cheap minded So many reviews complaining of the price of this digital copy being the same as the physical. So many complain the price is too high in general. Yet this magazine is of great quality and always an excellent read. How could $15 for a magazine be too high for a piece that you will enjoy? The creators need some sort of return for their hard work as they already make not much at all. That's a reality of the field. What do these people do for a living to complain about such little cost? I'm sure the same that complain about $3 and $5 apps.

99 cent September Issue - GOOD! Previously I complained about the pricing being to high. With the print edition we could get a year for $12 which included the cost of paper and shipping. Well I just noticed that the September 2013 issue is 99 cents. I purchased it. If you can keep prices like this or cheaper on the digital issues, which are much harder to share and theoretically much cheaper to distribute, I'm all for that. Unfortunately this is for the individual issue. For some reason the yearly subscription is more than 99 cents per issue. I bumped my rating from 1 star to 3 stars. I'll make it higher if you can match the $6 yearly subscription price of the iPad release. Platform price discrimination is really the only thing holding Popular Science back in the digital realm.

Digital Edition Too High! Newsstands Physical media continues to decline, and trying to force your digital customers to pay the same price to cover declining physical sales will not work in the "New Economy". You need to adapt or close shop, and you most certainly need to bring down your digital editions price by at least half. Better to take a pay cut now from the top down, then go bankrupt trying to run an outdated business model in this new digital business model.

Takes advantage of better formatting available Pages turn properly in Popular Science and more nicely formatted than Popular Mechanics which failed to work properly for me failing to update page displays periodically. Content also is better and zoomable than Popular Mechanics. Nice use of formatting on my Xyboard tablet. Great annual price option at only $14.99.

Oh how convenient.... an error message during a sale! So, Google Play decides to celebrate their 1yr. anniversary/birthday by giving subscribers a chance to purchase movies, music, TV shows, books and magazines for a discounted price. HOWEVER!!!, it is quite clear that the most popular and most regularly expensive titles are conveniently displaying an error message when one attempts to make the purchase at the sale price, and not displaying an error when one tries to purchase the same titles at the regular price. Not sure who to blame here, Google Play may be at fault because I'm sure they are picking up the remainder on the sale price, and can so easily pick and choose which titles are too popular and pose a risk of elevated lose if they are able to be purchased at the sale price. Or perhaps its the titles them selves that are to blame. We all know how greedy they are when it comes to wanting current subscribing customers to play an additional month fee for digital service of the same thing they already subscribe to. Either way, this completely seals the deal for me on Google Play's Magazine subscription section. NEVER AGAIN will I visit this page. Nearly every title in this collection has far more neg. reviews than pos.

Save a tree, snub an idiot Really? There is no shortage of trees. What a shortsighted and ignorant post. No maybe arguing that the subscription price online is the same if not more in certain cases would be better. Seriously though, there is a reason that loggers don't just mow down our forests anymore! It isn't just because of over-logging, but also due to the fact that the side effects of clear cutting forests are too great. Not to mention the displacement of thousands of species of wildlife and even the endangerment & extinction!

Too ridiculously expensive. I not only have free apps that provide me with free constant produced material from that publisher, I already know of numerous ways that I could get this magazine free. I think that it is silly you provide a high resolution copy of your magazine that I can get digitally for free. I wanted to buy this until I realized how much you wanted to charge me. Because, correct me I am wrong? You already make shitloads of money from the advertisements. You make this a free subscription service, now. Five star 4 mag:O

Disturbing propaganda rag I was disturbed by the amount of statism propaganda in this issue. For instance, the position that the writers take on eugenics. The issue of overpopulation has been around since Malthus, and his ideas have been of little practical consequence. Despite its Pseudo scientific character this magazine fails to deliver on facts and on its so called "solutions" on a logical or intellectual basis. I will never purchase this again.

Don't listen to the other idiot reviews. It's 1.99 an issue when you do a month by month subscription. The idiots saying you need to have Internet to view it haven't downloaded it to the device. Common sense people. Great magazine and great price.

Navigation needs improvement 4 stars for content. This digital version leaves a lot to be desired. This is basically like reading a pdf. There's not even hot links to take you to the second part of articles that are split (in this issue, the article regarding citizen astronauts). There's no reason you shouldn't be able to tap on the text "continued on page xx" to jump directly to it. The publisher should take a hint from the digital version of Entertainment Weekly. Their publication takes full advantage of being digital.

Good magazine.... Bad price The print magazine translates well to the digital format. It looks beautiful on my nexus 7 and looks good on my Android smartphone. The bad is that the subscription price is almost double the price for the print version. Lower the price and I will subscribe!!

Nexus 7 Everything working great, don't know if others aren't up to date on is and magazine app or just ... challenged. Great content, great look. Halve the cost and add some interactive content and it'd be 5 stars easy.

People complaining 4.99 is too much... 4.99 is the price for ONE magazine. It is expensive if you were to buy only one physical copy in a store also. For cheaper price you would subcribe two way - monthly or yearly. 1.99 for monthly subscription equaling 23.88/year (I'm sure people have their reason for month-to-month subscription.) or14.99 for yearly subscription equaling 1.25/month

Popular social engineering I read the free copy that came with the nexus and this mag is so far up its own butt and full of generalized me and all my coworkers think this so its true bias inaccuracies its time to drop the science from the title.

Great content, well formatted. The content is what you've always experienced from Popular Science... high quality stuff. As for all of the concerns people are expressing for pricing, c'mon. $15 for the year is more than fair, and $1.99 for the month-to-month is as well. For those of you who expect the digital content for free because you subscribe to the print edition, why should this content, which costs the publisher additional $ to provide, be free? Get rid of your tree-wasting subscription, save that $ and spend it on the digital.

Needs To Be Interactive Wouldn't balk at the $14.99 price except too cumbersome. Need to be able to truly navigate through the magazine. Opted for the $5 annual print subscription (1st year, $12 thereafter) through Amazon.

Great Magazine I love Popular Science its way better than Popular Mechanics which is full of advertisements. I recommend this magazine in either print or digital. Im actually lean towards the digital version since i can carry an unlimited amount of issues on 1 device.

TOO EXPENSIVE??? How do people figure its "too expensive? Do the calculations. 4.99/one mag, just say you get one every month, that totals over $60/yearly. Compared to that, $15 doesn't sound so bad. Just saying...

Way too expensive Last November, 2011, I got one-year subscriptions in the print-editions of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Maximum PC, each at $5 (yes FIVE US dollars) each delivered to my home. So, Google, and other e-magazine providers, expect me to save the publishers a lot of printing/delivery money and then pay $$$ for a tablet so that I pay 5 times the cost to receive the same magazine but in electronic format. What the heck do they think we readers are? Idiots with money-growing trees in our backyards? I wonder if those who commented "Excellent price" really did their homework shopping for magazines!

Great magazine. Period. So many useless negative reviews. These don't help people considering a new subscription. This is an awesome magazine. The fact that current subscribers should get digital free has nothing to do with the quality of the writing.

Just had to find out.... if this was exactly the same as the paper magazine. Purchased that one too; it is with a few exceptions. This emagazine has brighter pictures, can be set to read as an ebook with your choice of text size, bookmarks your place and you have this with you everywhere. Also saves a tree or two....

Wake The F*** Up Pop Sci In reality, this subscription should be even less than a print version, but I'd still be willing to pay the going subscription price for a digital version. Of all magazines that would sell best as digital versions it's this and pop mechanics. WE ARE THE TECHIES WILLING TO EMBRACE NEW TECHNOLOGY FIRST, but be realistic on your price.

Why is the price higher? Google can you explain why the hard copy subscription is cheaper than the digital one. The 12 months subscription is $12 for 1 year and $18 for the 2 year paperback subscription. Why is the digital subscription cost more? Can someone explain this logic to me? I don't get it. Using less resources and saving trees but still pay more? I don't think so. You are so ready to pass the "increase cost of production" to consumers but when is the other way around, yeah lets work together here. I WILL ONLY SUBSCRIBE TO A MAGAZINE IF IT IS CHEAPER THAN THE PAPERBACK. WAKE-UP!

People are stupid First of all for those rating at 1 star learn how to use your Nexus 7 number 2 you can actually view it without the ads so I think that's pretty convenient myself and you view it in text mode learn how to use this f****** thing, then complain! Oh and another thing for those who can't view it without being online will try to download it and see what happens

Who's driving these prices!?!? The content is great. The format is great. I actually READ the entire issue that came with my Nexus 7 from my Nexus 7 even though I had the print copy close by. But dang... stop being so greedy guys. I really want to see this digital format succeed.

Say what I have popular mechanics and game informer,I was getting paper copies but both sent me a email and asked if I would like to go digital,And it didn't cost me extra.So why would I pay more for popular science when i 'm already a print subscriber.Thanks but NO

What a rip I just subscribed to the print edition for $4.00 for 12 issues. You would think the e edition would be less. All the mags need to get smarter and offer e editions for less than printed. Until that happens I'll stick with print editions.

Forced to pay another subscription With my other subscriptions (like Wired) I don't have to pay again because I already paid for the print version. But PopSci is trailing in the e-magazine category. They either can't get with the times, or just plain greedy.

$60/year - for digital?!?! Keep in mind that Pop Sci has been my favorite mag since I was a little kid (20+ years) but someone seriously needs to put the crack pipe down... $4 or $5 for a print copy is one thing, but the overhead is sooooo much less for the digital version that $5 is simply not justified. I'm glad google gave me my free copy with my Nexus, but I cannot and will not pay those kinds of prices on even a one time basis, let alone subscribe... let me know when you come to your senses... Note: this would be a 5star review if the price was realistic.

Epubs should be cheaper! I realize that the publishers set the pricing not Google They are just being greedy for wanting the same amount as the retail price of a magazine. FYI you can go on ebay or or the grocery store to find the inserts to get subscriptions cheaply

Love it I don't know what you guys are talking about. It cost me 1.99 an issue when I subscribed for a year. Plus, they have a lot of people to pay. Writers, editors, photographers, etc. You guys are greedy. Go to the dollar store and see what mags they have for $1.00.

Needs better App for Viewing Needs Web better interface. Would like it to sort by year and issue (most current issue first) and not mix all magazines together. (e.g. Dec 2013 ... Jan 2013, Dec 2012...Jan 2012, not April 2012, April 2013 ... Sep 2013). Would like to see just top level just the cover of current issue and there I can pick to show that issue or list archival issues. One big list of mixing magazines, should be like the Android app. Works great on my Android phone and tablet. Also would like to see iPad app.

Digital for current subscribers Would really like this on my android, but not going to pay for Digital on top of Print Subscription I already have. Please change your policy to match most other magazines. Free, or a really compelling (inexpensive) add-on if one already has Print. I know that many others have said the same thing. Suggest you count them up. Thanks.

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